Editor's Review

Greenshot is an elegant screen capture tool for Windows that offers many of the same features as its proprietary counterparts. Greenshot offers default print screen settings with hotkey combinations that capture a screen, a window, or a region of either. Greenshot also lets you send an image to a built-in image editor, copy it to the clipboard, send it to your printer, export it to Microsoft Office, or upload it to a cloud-based program (Confluence, Box.com, Dropbox, Flick, Imgur without/with password, JIRA, Picasa-Web). And Greenshot offers some premium features like obfuscate, which lets you render a portion of the screen unreadable by pixilation or by blurring, and optical character recognition (OCR). Overall, we love Greenshot to capture basic screen elements and for letting us personalize the hot-key defaults we use when doing so.

Greenshot at a Glance

Using Greenshot is effortless; it took just a few minutes to install and launch. Upon launch, we noticed four hotkey combinations that are preset to capture images and the option to personalize them. In Greenshot, after you select an image it turns green momentarily and then produces a camera shutter sound to let you know your image was created. And, once you've taken a shot and captured it to your desired format (JPEG, BMP, GIF and PNG), you can embellish the shot with arrows, text, etc. Besides the ability to set preset formats, you have the option to configure Greenshot to save your images directly to the clipboard or send them to the printer.

Product Details

Here is a detailed breakdown of Greenshot’s features:

Capture images—Greenshot quickly createw screenshots of a selected region, window, or full screen; you can even capture complete (scrolling) web pages from Internet Explorer.

Share images—Greenshot exports screenshots in various ways: save to file, send to printer, copy to clipboard, attach to email, send Office programs or upload to photo sites like Flickr or Picasa, and others.

Additional options—Greenshot offers lots of additional options to simplify your work with screenshots, like optical character recognition (OCR).

Multi-language support—Greenshot supports 32 languages worldwide.

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Cons

Greenshot captures images quickly and has a number of built-in presets that allow you to customize it to your liking.

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Description

Greenshot is a lightweight screenshot software tool for Windows that quickly creates screenshots of a selected region, window, or full screen; you can even capture complete (scrolling) web pages from Internet Explorer. Greenshot easily annotates, highlights, or obfuscates parts of the screenshot. Greenshot also exports screenshots in various ways: save to file, send to printer, copy to clipboard, attach to e-mail, send Microsoft Office programs, or upload to photo sites like Flickr or Picasa. And Greenshot has a lot more options, to simplify the creation of, and work with, screenshots every day. Overall, Greenshot is easy to understand and configurable, that's why it is an efficient tool for project managers, software developers, technical writers, testers, and anyone else creating screenshots.

User Reviews

Very promising, but lacks scrolling capture which is essential to my work.

Posted 11/13/2014

timyau18

1 of 52 of 53 of 54 of 55 of 5

Easy to use. Convenient to edit screenshot.
One click share to online picture website.
Very GOOD!!!

Posted 02/21/2014

reinhardw

1 of 52 of 53 of 54 of 55 of 5

Really useful
Sometimes FILE AS cause a problem later, when viewing the picture in irfanview
Because file name also contains hidden characters.
Especially at the beginning of the suggested file name...

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